Don't be afraid. Just go for it. You just can't let that fear of uncertainty keep
you from doing the things that would really make you happy.
Put your energy today in this moment. After you see this video, after you hear
a message, just do one little thing that puts your life in the direction that you want to go.
Today we've got a video on Pete and Tay from Always The Road.
their van so if you're interested in buying that check that out in the
description as well. Enjoy today's video.
Hey, we're Pete and Tay. We've decided to build out this Sprinter van into a
traveling home. His name is Saunder.
It all kind of started I would say after we traveled Southeast Asia.
You know we were approaching graduation in college and neither of us were really
super stoked on the idea of like going getting like regular entry-level
nine-to-five jobs and so we were looking for a different way that we could
continue to travel and kind of make like a self-sustaining lifestyle for
ourselves. Yeah, I think part of the to was we wanted to kind of push ourselves into
creating a life for ourselves instead of just like becoming stagnant and not fulfill
our passions or our desires in this point of our life. We don't have kids, we
don't have a lot of commitments, it's a good time in our life to push ourselves
and see what we're capable of see what we can create give meaning back to our
community just let live the life that we kind of envision at this point.
This is Saunder, our beautiful home on wheels. Originally a San Diego Airport
shuttle bus so we have our beautiful front doors here which are shuttle doors.
One of our favorite features of the van. Outside we have our outdoor kitchen. We
do most of our cooking outside unless it's raining or at night we'll just
bring it inside and it works just as well. Over here we have we have the
surfboard that we bring everywhere even to the desert just in case there's waves
in the desert. We've seen a few usually late nights, but I haven't actually
surfed out here yet. Maybe one day. We did vent our battery. We do have an AGM
battery but just in case any off-gassing does occur we put some venting in and
also we have a plug in here for shore power in case we ever do plug in. Also
one more thing about Saunder is that looks white right now right but when we bought
it this whole entire van was full of purple and bright blue vinyl. We took
weeks taking it off you know we'd spend two hours a day here and there and it
was a pain but we got it all off and it's it's a pretty proud feeling now
that it's white.
Welcome to the interior of Saunder. This is our kitchen. We'll start here. Over
here is our fridge also known as snoop seat while we're
driving because he won't not be next to us. It seems small but it actually fits a
surprising amount of food and we really like it.
Fun feature that we made up was this little curtain right here with this big
Sun dude we love this guy. We backed it with a blackout curtain so we can't let
Sun in. We have some nets, tea, granola, quinoa, rice and all our spices up there
with our little fruit basket. Pull out cutting board. It's a nice maple cutting
board we actually made this everything in the interior is actually handmade by
us. Here's our little sink and then our water set up it's pretty simple but we
really like it. We just basically have two five gallon jugs so we have clean
water which goes through the hand pump wait for it wait for it there it is and
then we have our gray water and like lots of storage and then more storage
for food, cooking supplies, stuff like that. We'll move into the living space.
Like I said we made everything ourselves so these are plywood dressers with
walnut tops we actually like thickness planed and sanded it all - all the wood in
here down ourselves. It's a lot of work but definitely worth it. Everybody sees
pictures of our van and they're like where's your toilet how do you not have
a toilet but we do have a toilet we just keep it very well-hidden and that's the
point. Here's the Music Center. We have guitar, ukulele, a little tambourine here,
harmonica in which I've played once but I have big dreams I will learn how to play harmonica.
And we never have a shortage of cowbell.
And then these are our benches cool thing about these is you can flip these
things down so they're flat for when we sleep but it's a little more comfy when
you have a little bit of an angle when you sit so we've put those up and then these
backs move and we take those out and we stack them all on these center ledges
and this all turns into one giant bed and it has plenty of room for me, Pete
and Snoop. Especially Snoop, he has plenty of space to spread out and stretch his
legs against our backs. We each have our own side with a whole lot of stuff. It's all
neat and organized right now but it gets very messy very quickly. And our books and
then whatever sees fitting we throw up on that cork board.
Don't be afraid. Just go for it. You just can't let that fear of uncertainty keep
you from doing the things that would really make you happy
because if you can't embrace uncertainty then you're just gonna live a very
stressful lifestyle. You know it might sound cliche but just believe in
yourself and if you have this vision of the way that you want your life to go
you know take action into it like a lot of things are just determined on the
effort that you put into your life and maybe you'll fail 10 times maybe you'll
succeed the hundredth time you know. We don't have a lot of money saved up
we don't have you know like this big bank account that we're like if this
doesn't work then we have you know this fallback and I think that's the biggest
fear of all and that's a very rational fear, financial stress, and we're in that
same stress as other people you know. We're trying to figure that out too so
if that's holding you back just know that sometimes it just takes takes a
step in that direction to figure it out and yeah it's scary as hell sometimes.
Yeah we don't know exactly how we're gonna sustain this long term but that's
kind of the fun of it and if if things don't work out then we'll see where the
journey takes us and this is a start at least.